Impact of spatial heterogeneities on oxygen consumption in sediments: Experimental observations and 2D numerical modeling

Journal of Geochemical Exploration

Volumn 112, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-83

  Mügler, Claude ^a   Rabouille, Christophe ^a   Bombled, Bruno ^a   Montarnal, Philippe ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Microelectrode; Organic carbon mineralization; Reactive transport modeling

Indexed keywords

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; CHARACTERISTIC DISTANCE; CHEMICAL SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-LATERAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LABILE ORGANIC MATTER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATERAL DIFFUSION; LOCAL DEPOSITION; MACROFAUNA; NUMERICAL MODELING; ORGANIC AGGREGATES; ORGANIC-CARBON MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN MICROELECTRODES; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; SHALLOW WATER ENVIRONMENT; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEPOSITS; EXPERIMENTS; MICROELECTRODES; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; MINERALIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84155167328     PISSN: 03756742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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